Travis Avenue & Draper Place

Travis Avenue and Draper Place meet at a four-way crossing in New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis, Staten Island. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of one crash for a Staten Island corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. Richmond Preparatory Charter School is 680 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Richmond Av/Travis Av, is 250 feet away for the S44, S59 and S94. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Dr M L King Jr Expressway
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Richmond Av/Travis Av · S44, S59, S94
Within a walk
7 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Travis Avenue & Draper Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Richmond Av/Travis Av, 250 feet away, for the S44, S59 and S94.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Richmond Av/Travis Av S44, S59, S94
    250 feet
    S44 S59 S94

Next buses at this stop

  1. S44 …
  2. S59 …
  3. S94 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Dr M L King Jr Expressway at Dr M L King Jr Expressway & Victory Boulevard, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2441 Richmond Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. Teleport Drive Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1.7 miles
  3. 1441 Richmond Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes at this corner, more than the median of one crash for a Staten Island corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10314
Community board
Staten Island Community Board 2
City Council district
50 and 51 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
121
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1970 and 1984.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the green ash and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 9 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Draper Place

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Travis Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Jewish Community Center of Staten Island Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  2. Jewish Community Cntr Berman Early School
    440 feet
  3. Richmond Preparatory Charter School
    680 feet
Show all 4
  1. Little Excellence Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    690 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freshkills Park
    20 feet
  2. William T Davis Wildlife Refuge in Freshkills Park Park feature
    30 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    320 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Heartland Village Shopping Center Shopping center
    560 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Draper Place or Travis Avenue.

Sources: NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.